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the very text-book must to a certain but less marked extent, 
exhibit a tendency in this direction. They must “ judge all things 
and select the good,” or they will fail in producing satisfactory 
results. Thus, of works on human anatomy, ‘ Gray ' is more 
popular than ‘ Quain and Sharpey,' though much less exhaus¬ 
tive, and we have long needed a work like ‘Gray' on veterinary 
anatomy, dealing comprehensively with the subject, but not 
overloaded with technical terms nor verbose to excess. 
We have had text-books of this nature : Percivall’s ‘ Anatomy 
of the Horse' is well written, and was an admirable text-book 
some five-and-twenty years ago; but anatomy is a progressive 
science, and we are hardly content with the anatomy which our 
fathers learned. Strangeway’s first edition was much of the 
same stamp, but we considered it badly put together; we could 
not rely upon its statements; many of its pages were verbatim 
translations of foreign anatomists, so it hardly met our require¬ 
ments. But it now appears under a new form from the hands 
of an able officer of one of our schools, increased very materially 
in bulk, and with many valuable illustrations. If we find it 
accurate, plain, and complete, it is just the work we require. It 
is accurate, in so far as we have examined it. We do not here 
refer to all its minor points, for we find on these much difference 
of opinion among anatomists, but to those broad facts and state¬ 
ments which should be accepted by the student. Of its clearness 
there can be no doubt; it is adapted to the comprehension of any 
student; its plainness even, in some cases, seems to amount to 
imperfection of detail; but this is certainly better than obscurity. 
We, therefore, can most highly recommend this work to the 
student; he will find that Chauveau is only adapted to the 
advanced stages of study, but here he can read with facility and 
profit, even at the earliest stage of his collegiate career. It is 
not quite so complete in some matters, especially comparative 
osteology, as we should wish to find it; but it must be remem¬ 
bered that the comparative-anatomy examination to which 
students are subjected is very elementary. We doubt not Pro¬ 
fessor Vaughan deals with this more thoroughly in the lecture 
theatre, and with us holds that many matters should be touched 
upon there of a more advanced character than those included in 
the veterinary curriculum of the present day, for we see he is 
Professor of Zoology, and places his comparative observations on 
a zoological basis. We may reasonably be allowed to congratu¬ 
late the profession on this useful addition to its anatomicaljitera- 
ture. We feel satisfied that, in the matter of text-books, the 
anatomical is “ second to none” of the branches of veterinary 
study. J. H. S. 
